Violinist Shannon Reilly presents two dramatic multimedia works, exploring her identity through simultaneous live performance, filmed media, singing, and acting. Reilly’s career launched with Anna Heflin’s 2019 solo opera The Wonderland Series, a “viscerally expressive fever dream” (ROC City News) which she’s performed in her professorship at UB SUNY, for Rochester’s Fringe Festival, and at NYC’s Blackbox at Power Station. In this west-coast premiere, Shannon examines the mysterious background and Biblical obsessions of its author and how they manifest in Wonderland. Shannon will also premiere Shaking, her most recent commission from Erich Barganier, examining how growing up in modern American Christianity impacted her own identity and demanding she reimmerse herself in the inherently performative and mentally taxing environment of a pentecostal church service. In performing these pieces, Shannon confronts her own identity, exploring the possibilities of being a ‘violinist’ while wrestling with her own religious upbringing. Tickets are $15 or pay what you can

For the last 32 years, the Peking Acrobats have redefined audience perceptions of Chinese acrobatics. The group performs daring maneuvers atop a precarious pagoda of chairs and display their technical prowess at such arts as trick-cycling, precision tumbling, juggling, somersaulting, and gymnastics. They push the limits of human ability, defying gravity with amazing displays of contortion, flexibility, and control. The Peking Acrobats are often accompanied by live musicians who skillfully play traditional Chinese instruments; the time-honored Chinese music coalesces with high-tech special effects and awe-inspiring acrobatic feats, creating an exuberant entertainment event with the festive pageantry of a Chinese carnival.
tickets: https://arts.pepperdine.edu/events/2024-2025-season/peking-acrobats.htm
$28–$53
$28 for youth 17 and younger

Beloved for his intimate, confessional live shows, Colin Hay is widely known for being the influential and celebrated front man of Men At Work with its multiplatinum hits that include "Down Under," "Who Can It Be Now?" and "Overkill" among many others. Hay’s solo catalog includes such hits as "Waiting for My Real Life to Begin" and "Beautiful World.". In Hay's extraordinary new solo album, Now and the Evermore, he faces down struggle, loss, and even his own mortality with grit and wit at every turn. Written and recorded in Hay’s adopted hometown of Los Angeles, the collection is a defiantly joyful celebration of life and love, one that insists on finding silver linings and reasons to smile.
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tickets: https://arts.pepperdine.edu/events/2024-2025-season/colin-hay.htm
$58–$78